A worldwide community project

Mapping the blueprint
of critical minerals.

Connecting knowledge worldwide.
Enabling better processing.

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Every plant. Every lab. Every researcher.
A turquoise mineral specimen joined to a DNA double helix, illustrating the Minerals Genome conceptMINERALS × KNOWLEDGECONNECTED WORLDWIDE
01 / The problem

Different minerals.
One general recipe.

Lost minerals

Wasted energy & water

Toxicity

Poor economics

Our mission

The knowledge is out there.
Let’s connect it.

Every plant. Every lab. Every researcher.
One shared knowledge base.

Mineral knowledge, connected worldwideA geographic world map in the Equal Earth projection, with real coastline coordinates and animated illustrative connections. Dots do not represent confirmed contributors.Projection: Equal Earth. Geographic data: Natural Earth land via martynafford/natural-earth-geojson; world boundaries via johan/world.geo.json; Canada provinces via codeforgermany/click_that_hood (ArcGIS Canada Boundary). Connection points are illustrative.
Knowledge without borders · Illustrative connections
02 / The Minerals Genome

Seven perspectives.
One connected picture.

DOMAIN 01 / 07

The geological setting.

Physical signals across a deposit.

Schematic illustrations · Select a domain to explore.
03 / How it works

From shared knowledge
to tailored processing.

01

Share

Data · Results · Insights

02

Connect

A shared knowledge base

03

Tailor

Mineral-specific solutions

Everyone, everywhere

A global project.
A place for you.

Bring your data, ideas, or expertise.

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Amir Eskanlou
eskanlou@stanford.edu